A blog dedicated to the hobby aspect of Games Workshop's Warhammer 40k universe. This blog covers painting, converting, scratch building, and sometimes even playing Imperial Guard, Space Marines, Blood Angels, or other armies as I get around to painting them.

Saturday, July 25, 2015

Death Korps of Krieg Unit Test

Thanks to everyone who has been making suggestions on the color scheme. I have painted as long as I can stand to paint today, and almost have a squad to share with you. It has been fun doing live updates like this, however I am spent. Loads of constructive input went into these guys. I included the melta gunner int the photo so you could see the progression. Most of the suggestions that went into improving that model ended up incorporated into the new color scheme. I may still paint up a squad in the darker brown color. I still kind of dig it, however I think the new scheme is much better.

Since I have to paint about a 100 of these guys, it is useful to paint up a test squad to see how difficult it would be. It turns out that I can probably kick out 1 squad every two days. The really killer is the webbing/leg wraps. Those take forever. I normally paint in silence, but for the big push I might need something to make painting all those wraps ok.

Well, most of the stuff I do is only half finished by the standards of most of the work in the blogosphere. However, on the scale I do it, it still looks OK. Fortunately I can occasionally get the whole lot out and do another stage for the entire fleet (or segments thereof).

Those look fantastic! I suggest some BL audio books or maybe the black keys and some similar bands. Though Johnny cash is always good for a long haul. You kind of go into this trance when he's on and suddenly you are at your destination... with a lot of angry looking cops but still, you get there o_O